The 16th Lan Song Xanh (Green Wave) Music Awards honoured composers,
singers and music bands who have made outstanding contribution to
Vietnamese music in 2013, at the Lan Anh Music Stage in Ho Chi Minh City
on the evening of December 16.

The Bank for Industry and Trade (Vietinbank) will grant 300 million VND
(nearly 14,300 USD) to the restoration of “Bien chung” (brass
bells) - a music instrument which used to be
played at musical performances for the Hue royal court in the 19th
and 20th centuries.

The southern coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau received 650,000
visitors from Feb. 9 to 17 (the last day of the lunar year of 2012 to
the eighth day of the 2013 lunar year), an increase of around 10 percent
over the same period last year.